“I woke up and his head was
leaning over mine. I swear he wasn't blinking. Just staring at me in
my sleep. It was still dark but I left my room immediately and went
to my friend's room. The next morning, I packed my bags and basically
didn't live in my dorm the entire year.” One of my high school
teachers told me this story from his time as an undergraduate at Cal,
and I wondered how something like that could even happen to him. I
never expected to have any troubles with my future roommates or
housemates, and all I could feel at the time was excitement—I was
excited to live with peers. I imagined an endless sleepover where
friendships grew, communication was easy, and everyone was courteous
of one another.

Until I actually came to college.
There was an error on my housing application and it was too late to
live with my friends. I eventually scrambled to find myself an
apartment and housemates, and neither worked out in my favor. In
college we're forced to live with people we've never met before, and
while many times it works out beautifully, I'm sure a lot of find
ourselves wanting to move out as soon as possible. So here I present
stories of unusual roommates and housemates, stories that you may
help you hang in there, or stories that'll make you feel thankful for
your current housemates

1. “When I lived in Bowles, I had four roommates. But one didn't show up so I
had a room to myself. But of the other two, there was this guy names
John* who was batshit crazy. My roommate didn't show up, I lived with my girlfriend at the time and we'd do stuff together. But when we went out into the living room where John* would sit all day
playing games and if we talked normally or something he would be
looking at his computer with headphones on or something yelling
almost quietly to himself "shut up shut up shut up"

and
then when he wasn't mad he'd try talking normally to us, which
was really awkward

but
he also went into school housing raffles for ipads and won two. So
i guess that's cool”

2. “My
roomie brought her bf every week thursday-sunday so it ruined my
sleep and study schedule cause they would stay up late and sleep in
late. She
would
leave the food out and it would make the apartment
smell, they would be dirty, and not considerate of me and my other
roommate cause when we get up
in the morning the living room and kitchen is a mess”

3. “There
were four of us. Two of them became best friends and would do coke and
smoke weed and cigs INSIDE the house. Leave the cards and knives on
my desk and get the powder all over the floor. Bring people over
until 5 am play music and laugh and talk really loudly even when I
told them I have a midterm the next day. And even though I kept
asking, they wouldn't tell me in advance when they would bring
friends over. And they would have sex on me or the other girl's bed
when we weren't there...etc. It was horrible. And they would throw
my stuff on the floor when I wasn't there for complaining about the
noise on weekdays. Eventually the other girl started commuting from
her home in SF and my friends ended up taking me in in their dorm”

4. “My
roommate said 'is dating two girls something allowed in the states'

then
once dyed his hair orange

and
then shaved his whole hair like 3 days later”

5. “My roommate never left the
room cuz she was always taking naps or skyping her bf. So the
curtains were always drawn and super dark in the room”

6. “It
wasn't that annoying cause i didnt really mind until his
clothes were everywhere on the ground

it
started as a pile next to his bed and then it slowly creeped on my side of the room and
i was somewhat annoyed

there
were a few times where i was sexiled and
even sometimes when he asked me to get out because
he wanted to be alone with a girl

When
I first got to know him through fb he
seemed chill and
he is don't
get me wrong

and
then we decided on each other and
after we requested each other he
said "oh
btw im bi" which
obviously like isn't much of a problem to me however,
it was kinda like a what the fk moment
because i feel like he should have told me in advance”